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Background

Kenny McCormick becomes a Magic the Gathering player at a local hobby store. He plays and wins against the champion known as "Slaughterhouse". Cartman excitedly talks about the previous nights match in the hallway at school and is overheard by a custodian named Mitchell. He invites the boys to an underground tournament where roosters a.k.a. "cocks", battle using MtG cards. The boys eat at a McDonald's like restaurant where Kenny expresses his dismay of using roosters to play a game he enjoys. The boys decide to pick out a rooster of their own for cock magic battles at a local farm. They pick one and name him McNuggets, after the breaded chicken menu item at McDonald's. During the first match, McNuggets wins against Rueben at the City Wok. A promoter encourages the boys to try and play at the Panda Express where the competition is fiercer. Kenny plays in place of McNuggets, and almost wins against Gadnuk: Breaker of Worlds until the Park County Police Force break up the event.

Rules

The rules are very basic but the strategy can become complicated due to the many thousands of cards in existence. Two or more players use a personalized deck of 60 cards and take turns casting spells and creatures using "land" cards also known as "mana". The mana is used as a "casting cost" of the attacking creature cards. Spell cards known as "Instants" can change the rules of the game and cause effects to either player, directly or indirectly. Each player starts with 20 points and the goal is to decrease the opponents points down to zero. First player who reaches zero loses the match. Usually the best out of three matches wins the round.

Throughout the episode, the rules are frequently ignored in favor of dramatic action (For example, when going against Gadnuk, Kenny uses a sorcery card during the middle of Gadnuk's turn, which isn't normally possible).

The Cards Featured

Many of the cards mentioned in the episode are currently real cards. These are listed below.

Planeswalker: Not a specific card, but the general name for a type of card that represents a character from the fictional backstory for the game, which grants certain abilities and can be targeted for attack or damage by an opponent in place of the planeswalker's controller. (Mentioned as the target of damage from Slaughterhouse's "Spark Ghast")